I know this is wayyyyy back in the discussion, but just so everybody knows, theJoe Biden Defense works.
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I would suggest that Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC is full of shit and MSNBC has a history of hiring evening lineup personnel who they later had to fire for saying something stupid.
Keith Olbermann, Pat Buchanan, Ed Schultz, Alec Baldwin, Martin Bashir…
(Click link to get context.) Admittedly, the Brickhead has minced his words so he can disavow Bush malice if it suits him. Still he did use the phrase “purely objective measure”, and if we pretend that *any *of Bricker’s utterances are intended as sincere, why not this one?
Since there is no member going by the nom de plume of Brickhead, can I assume that your use of the term Brickhead is your way of saying that you have run out of logical or reasonable argument?
My favorite aspect of the Pit is how just about any big news topic can evolve into a Demmy Pubby fight,
It just NEVER gets OLD!
How can Bricker’s point be denied when you look at all the prominent Republicans rushing to renounce, denounce, and condemn these unfortunate remarks on the part of Mr. Willis? I might cite them all if I were not so concerned with overburdening our loyal hamsters with a crushing flood of links and text.
No doubt, Republican officials in MO will need to step up their efforts to protect the sacred value of voter confidence, as this is a perfect opportunity for treachery on the part of CASA, ACORN, and the New Black Panther Party! Responsible Republican leaders will have to move swiftly if the all-important voter confidence is to be protected from the nefarious plots of such as these.
I would suggest that its not Lawrence O’Donnell that’s full of shit.
Olbermann and Buchanan weren’t fired for anything they said. Olbermann just didn’t get along with management and Buchanan published a book. Ed Schulz was only pushed out to allow Chris Hayes to take his time slot. But after Hayes didn’t pull Schulz’s rating numbers, they brought him back. He’s still with MSNBC today.
That’s pretty weak sauce. Also, I like your use of the ominous term “on record”, as if it implies something other than “posted on the SDMB”. However, this let’s-evaulate-Bricker hijack has gone on far enough already, so I intend to drop it.
I would suggest that you are letting your personal political views color your recognition of actual facts.
Regardless of O’Donnell’s political stance, if appears to be factual that no report was made by Ferguson PD. Terr has asserted such was done by another agency, and if so that’s fine, although I’d be interested to know whether this was based on written policy or something done off the cuff by Ferguson’s police chief, or another authority.
I gotta say, I think this is a basically meaningless claim. Here are reasons that some particular Republican might NOT have denounced the claims of the executive director of the MO Republican party, as far as we know:
(1) didn’t hear about them
(2) didn’t feel responsible for what the execute director of the Republican party says
(3) felt that issuing an entire statement whose sole purpose was to disagree with a single stupid remark gave that remark more dignity than it deserved
(4) DID denounced that remark, but it wasn’t widely publicized that the Attorney General of Utah randomly denounced a statement made by the executive director of the MO Republican party, because honestly why would anyone care?
(5) Disagrees with the statement but was busy actually doing a real job
(6) Disagrees with the statement but was politically too cowardly to say so
(7) Agrees with the statement
What right do we have to assume that it’s (6) or (7)?
Sure, there are rare times when it’s reasonable to denounce people for silence… such as, when there is a holocaust going on. Denouncing people for silence, when that silence is their lack of denouncing one random state-level party functionary saying a stupid thing, is pretty ridiculous.
And this just in from our good friends at Daily Kos:
The incident report has been released. According to this, it tells us squadoosh, except that it apparently took nine days to accomplish that.
Let 'im have it, Dorkwhinge!
I do find it interesting that under “Victim Information” in the report they list Michael Brown, adult. Gosh, are they trying to prejudice the case or something?
So the St. Louis County police, after more than a week of, no doubt, intense investigation, has come to the conclusion that a person named Michael Brown was shot to death in Ferguson on August ninth. That’s some real fine police work there.
Well, might I be permitted to scold? A bit of polite finger-wagging with a “tut-tut, tsk tsk” thrown in for good measure?
My previous assessment of this type of situation stands. You appear to have run out of logical or reasonable argument.
It’s also against the rules to screw around with members names. Buh bye. :smack:
It is? Uh-oh, I am sooo banned!
“permitted”? I’m not your nanny. What I am saying is that there’s plenty (WAY MORE than plenty, in fact) of Republicans to criticize for things that that individual person actually said or did, so there’s no reason to also criticize other Republicans for things they didn’t say or do.